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Originally Posted by jr_tech
I should have posted the frequency (it was shown on the coverage map that I linked to). WKSV is at 89.1 Mhz, and according to the FCC website is 50 KW. The transmitter is "out of town" in your direction, almost in your backyard, perhaps 8 to 10 miles from your location. It should be nearly melting the front end of your receiver! 
On an analog receiver you will only hear the main program, which is a mix of classical music and NPR programming. The news is on a digital sub-channel (HD-4).
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should be very strong in this area, but it isn't. I can barely hear it on my stereo system (Aiwa bookshelf unit, circa 1999); the hash from my computer (the stereo is very close to the CPU) just about covers up the signal completely. (My stereo has one of the worst digital FM tuners on earth; all but useless in anything other than very strong signal areas.) On my other FM radios, this station does not come in at all. There is next to nothing in this area below 92 MHz, so I never bother with it.
I never heard of such a thing as -HD anything in connection with FM broadcast radio. That is, I have heard spots on local FM stations, ones I can get here (mostly stations owned by Clear Channel) advertising something called "HD radio", but I never hear any of those stations' "HD" programs. Besides, I read somewhere just recently that HD radio, whatever it really is, is just about dead in this country anyway. Maybe the large media conglomerates (such as CC) that operate such stations are beginning to realize this, and have all but given up on this format, not unlike AM stereo and four-channel (quad) audio, both of which died a quiet death in the 1980s and '90s, in reverse order.